High GPA engineering/premed = increased chances?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>The overwhelming majority says that major doesn't matter for med school, which basically makes me crazy for being a mechanical engineer at cornell thinking about taking that path. But the usual disdain towards engineer pre-meds is because it makes a dent in your GPA, but I'm lucky enough to be maintaining a 3.9 with reasonable comfort. After engineering courses, science courses in the arts school seem like a joke (although I did underestimate orgo).</p>

<p>So, I'm pretty sure I can keep up the 3.9 in engineering and score around 35 on the MCAT's, but I don't think I can amass tons of clinical and research experience while keeping my backup of engineering/business open. My current efforts involve trying to find work at the interface of meche and medicine like ortho implants and biomed so it doesn't screw me out of one field. </p>

<p>I know that for top med schools gpa and mcat scores are high for all applicants, but will a high gpa in mechanical engineering stand out or get lost in the crowd? It seems that if I'm not completely set on medical school from an early stage I significantly reduce my chances since I'll have less clinical experience and medical EC's than other applicants.</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/377780-premed-forum-faqs-read-first.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/377780-premed-forum-faqs-read-first.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"This is **including **variation in MCAT scores and GPA - that is, this does not control for those. In other words, if chem majors have lower GPAs than English majors, then that does not adversely affect either group."</p>

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<p>i believe they flat out do not care about your major, your just giving your self an extra challenge w/ very little benefits....</p>

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<p>The benefit is that you have a great backup career. But you can't have your cake and eat it too...</p>

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<p>The benefits maybe that you can have an insight in how to build something that might be helpful for medicine like medical devices.</p>

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<p>^^^ yes thats true
but whats the point of knowing how to build it, if u can not be a doctor, assuming thats what he wants to be</p>

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<p>Is it that PR doesn't understand my post #2, or that he's disagreeing with it?</p>